Stroll Wars - Rumble in the Woods
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These are some dangerous woods to stroll through! ;)
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Try a shield button that bounces the shots back and stuns them.
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You could have shots do more damage the closer you are to someone when you fire. That way players want to get closer to each other, but at the risk that the other player can also do more damage to them.
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Put a random powerup spawning on the map, like spreadshot or rocket launcher. They’ll all chase after it. When you get it, it doesn’t have ammo but rather a timer; so you can’t simply grab and squat waiting for your opponent. You need to chase them, use it or lose it.
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Put some pugs in it :)
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@toxibunny oh I like that some NPC that attacks everyone.
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@toxibunny Just wondering are you happy with the 8 direction movement and shooting given that the Switch has analogue sticks which would make it simple enough to allow for 360 degrees of motion. But maybe the 8 direitions is a design choice, if so fair enough. I was just wondering because somewhere I've got a similar project based on Tron Deadly DIscs which does have full 360 movement/aiming and I think that to a degree this feature would help a bit with the problem of button mashing whenever something crosses the line of sight because this way all directions are potentially hittable,
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Thank you, this was very helpful feedback. When I get back to my switch I do some tests, maybe I release it first. The only 8 direction movement is probably something that hinders the player. Sadly the characters graphics are limited, but maybe i can still allow the movement.
...and with the other ideas i can enrich the gameplay afterwards, like npc or items.
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Yep, the dog. I think they’re hilarious :)
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The list of todo's finally shrinked to two: highscores (yay! @vinicity I guess I can also use the planned version with multiple game modes ;-)) and rounds, because revenge is sweet, I guess?
The keyboard controls (I know for a 5 player game, its an overkill, but I will update Smack Man afterwards) are a bit tricky:
When holding down a key, the key appears once in the buffer and disappears afterwards for 0.5 seconds, so I automatically re-apply the last key after 0.5 seconds, for one more time (because after that 0.5 seconds the key is reappearing every frame again in the key buffer. Problem left: diagonal movement, when pressing two keys at the same time are currently jumpy. Maybe its not possible to do keyboard control anymore, if I try the free-direction movement idea. -
@spikey If you are doing "wasd" type keyboard controls, can't you use separate keys for diagonals, like "q" for up/left, "e" for up/right, etc.?
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@vinicity thank you for your comment. The diagonal movement can be handled, because the buffer will just contain "aw" if both keys are pressed. But I think the player with the keyboard has a disadvantage because somebody controlling the character with the analog stick will be able to move in other directions as 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, etc. e.g. 60 degrees. With the keyboard I can only stick with multiples of 45 degrees. So, currently I will restrict the analog stick control. But thinking about why it was done like this in the early days, brought me to the point, that it was just not possible with the joysticks from C64 or Amiga (yes, in the arcade games, it probably was). So, I guess there is no reason to stick with this limitation if I not for the retro-style reason. The priority for this game is: max out the fun for a simple idea and adding later additional things (to extend the fun) like items or extra power, like all these cool suggestions above (thanks a lot by the way!), when it works.
The alternative way, would be to not directly use the input to move the character, but to move a direction pointer around the character and just move on a button press into this direction. But this hinders when shooting at the same time.
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It's like that loading progress bar that goes up to 99% pretty quickly then stays there for about an hour. Good luck with the last "2" things.
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Looks great! Will try it with the kids tonight!
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Added the controls help screen. And the help text caused a crash by a memory leak, when using the
strReplace()function in a loop. I removed it now.
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I tried to reproduce the crash with
strReplace()with a more simplified code, but failed. Basically it was appearing when the input and output parameter of the function were the same. Looks like there is a relation with the post from @Discostew . But for me, I guess the problem came from the arryay-elements I passed as the parameter. I will try again next time to figure it out. -
Final update done. 😅
- switching (> 20 times, every second) between the controls screen and the menu and between the high score screen and the menu caused a crash after 20 seconds: it was related to the use of the
strReplace(), passing the output to the next string replace function as an input. It was confirmed that is fixed in the next FUZE version 👍 - crashs were happening when undocked: I am not 100% sure how this got away, I just started to define a
setMode(1920, 1080)in the beginning and checked all scaling related stuff. - the touch keyboard was only giving me numbers instead of letters, when undocked: I had to call the
setMode(1280,720)explicitly, when undocked, before callinginput(). If you do not use setMode() at all, the keyboard will work docked and undocked.
Hope you enjoy, I will still have a look at @xevdev s suggestion with the free movement and drop the keyboard control.
And yeah, 10 high score tables and a reset high score function for game parties ;-)
- switching (> 20 times, every second) between the controls screen and the menu and between the high score screen and the menu caused a crash after 20 seconds: it was related to the use of the
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I am working on navigation improvements, and I think this was a major game flow blocker. To get that properly tested I need a proper training area 😂 but I definitely underestimated the time it takes to find style matching bushes and stones. 🧐
